Improvement in ice-crushers



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Letters Patent No. 111,652, dated February 7, 1871 antedated January 28, i871.

IMPRovEMENT IN Iciz-cRusHiRs.y

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

l, OLIVER B. KrNsnY, or" the city of Newark, in the county of Essex andState of New Jersey, have made certain Improvements inIce-Crushers, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The nature of n1y improvements consist in provision for a gradual andexpeditious. reduction of blocks of icc by means of combined oscillatingand vibratory` motion of a two-faced hand-plate, and easily adjustablebearing-plates.

The drawing shows a perspective anda sectional view of the apparatus.

A is a case or frame made oi wood or metal, and of any desired capacity.

B is a two-faced oscillating vibratory hand-plate, wit-l1 projectionsangular and pointed, as at r, or; if so chosen, hooked, as at s.

C is the gndgeon. of the hand-plate in its bearing in the side oi' thecasc'or frame.

D and E are bearing-plates, that may be cit-her straight or curved.

These plates are adjustable to any chosen incline by means ci the pinson the top ends ofy the plates, resting in recesses t in the upper edgesof the case or frame A, and at the lower end resting upon the shiftingslides 'u that are held by the pins v that ini-

